· Public charity
First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation C/O Arizona Community Fdn
We shall seek to fulfill the legacy of the first baptist church of phoenix by supporting the conversion of non-believers by providing needed funding primarily for church plants and associated activities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PHOENIX FOUNDATION C/O ARIZONA COMMUNITY FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $212,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $239,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $37,500 |
| EXCEL LEADERSHIP NETWORK | $30,000 |
| EAST VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH INCARIZONA 127 | $20,000 |
| ROCKY POINT MEDICAL CLINICS | $20,000 |
| THE RESTING PLACE | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $11,300 |
| ALONG SIDE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DREAM INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| MENTORKIDS USA | $10,000 |
| AZ REACH | $8,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PORTLAND | $8,000 |
| HUSTLE PHX | $8,000 |
| HOPE FOR HIMALAYAN | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation C/O Arizona Community Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ELEXCEL LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +19%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +59%
- NMNeighborhood Ministries Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +355%
Funded once
- THTRUE HOPE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $30k
- ECEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTIONone grant, 2018 · $16k
- RPROCKY POINT FAMILY OF GODone grant, 2018 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Religious
Training pastors in third world countries
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Religious Purposes
Ministry
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dream Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is River Rock Mission Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EXCEL LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTING PLACE CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds HUSTLE USA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ROCKY POINT MEDICAL CLINICS LLC ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds ALONG SIDE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY POINT MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRACE WITHOUT BORDERS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WIN OUR NATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds INDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Canyon Institute · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Servant Foundation · The Jack Ingebritson Foundation Inc · Grand Canyon University CityServe · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization First Baptist Church of Phoenix Foundation C/O Arizona Community Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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